Travel done properly
Discover and book extraordinary adventures.
Something’s gone wrong with how we explore the world.
What was once a leap into the unknown has been flattened into algorithms, clickbait, and mass-market experiences. Real expertise is crowded out by marketing sludge and AI slop.
Local tour operators, the people who make a journey extraordinary, are kept anonymous by faceless platforms who take a hefty cut along the way.
We got tired of it all. So we built something different.
Our guides draw on real, first-hand knowledge: from journalists who’ve been there and trusted local specialists who live it every day. We write for curious travellers who care about how they explore the world: people who want depth, honesty and a genuine connection to the places they visit.
And when you’re ready, we connect you directly with independent specialists – the real experts – so you can arrange your trip without middlemen or markups.
It might not make us billionaires, but this is our vision of travel done properly.
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Honest, expert-led travel advice
We don’t chase algorithms, trends, or gimmicks. Our guides are rooted in real, first-hand knowledge, from journalists who’ve been there, and local specialists who live and breathe their destinations. Everything we publish is human, impartial and honest. No advertorials. No AI-generated sludge. Just real advice you can trust.
For people who care how they travel
We’re not trying to reach everyone, and that’s deliberate. Horizon Guides is for curious, thoughtful travellers who want to explore intelligently and responsibly. People who look beyond the clichés, who care about where they go, what they do, and who they book with.
A fairer, more transparent way to book
When you find a trip that inspires you, we connect you directly with the independent specialists who actually make it happen. No hidden layers, no anonymous suppliers, no inflated markups. You speak to the real experts, they get the credit they deserve, and you get a better, more authentic experience.
Welcome to Horizon Guides. It's time to #TravelLessOrdinary.
Some of our contributors
Marcela Torres
Born in Santiago, Chile, Marcela is a journalist and local expert on outdoor travel. She’s earned a master's degree in tourism with an emphasis on ecotourism, operated a tour company, and co-authored a Spanish-language guidebook about Chile’s national parks. Her travel career has taken her all over South America, and she has also lived in Australia, Costa Rica, and the United States.
James Stewart
James Stewart is an award-winning travel journalist whose work appears regularly in the Sunday Times, Telegraph, Financial Times, Guardian and the Sunday Times Travel Magazine.
Steven Hermans
Steven is the creator and editor of Caravanistan, an online travel guide to the Silk Road that was described by the Lonely Planet as a "peerless online travel guide to the region". He has been travelling the region since 2010, and has dedicated himself to improving tourism on the Silk Road, both for travellers and locals.
Katie Coakley
Katie Coakley is a freelance writer and occasional blogger based in Denver, Colorado. She’s eaten dinner on a portaledge in Wales, snorkelled through the North American and Eurasian continents in Iceland and ridden the Reunification Express through Vietnam and has lived to write the tale. Antarctica was the seventh continent she has visited. Her writing has appeared in various newspapers, magazines and online outlets. You can find more of her work on her website or follow her on Instagram.
Jim O'Donnell
Freelance journalist, author and photographer, Jim O’Donnell focuses on conservation, human rights, and travel. A former archaeologist, O’Donnell is the author of Notes for the Aurora Society as well as numerous articles, several sordid tales, various angry letters-to-the-editor and other scribblings. He lives in New Mexico with his two children.
Susana Corona Cruz
Susana is a Cuban-born travel writer, blogger and translator. Now based in Europe, Susana returns to her motherland at least once a year to rediscover, photograph and write about her birthplace. She works as an editor and translator for online and offline publications and her work has appeared in The Luxury Report and London magazine Latino Life.
Vidya Balachander
Vidya Balachander is a food and travel writer based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Formerly the features editor of BBC Good Food India, her work has also featured in Mint Lounge, Vogue India, National Geographic Traveller India, Time Out Mumbai and the 2010 edition of Fodor’s Essential India guidebook.
Sue Watt
An expert on Africa wildlife travel, Sue writes for The Independent, The Telegraph and The Times, Travel Africa, BBC Wildlife, Wanderlust, the Lonely Planet and Rough Guides.
Ian Redmond OBE
Ian Redmond is a tropical field biologist and conservationist, renowned for his work with great apes and elephants. For more than 40 years he has been associated with the mountain gorilla, through research, filming, tourism and conservation work. Ian founded Ape Alliance in 1996 to encourage conservation organisations to work together.
Ethan Gelber
Ethan has been a freelance writer and editor for more than 20 years, with scores of projects focused on travel, culture and education. He specialises in responsible and sustainable tourism, family travel, and keeping travel local.
Charlotte Beauvoisin
Charlotte is a travel journalist and guidebook author based on the edge of Kibale Forest, Uganda. She is an expert contributor on East Africa for the Bradt Uganda Guidebook and has written for Lonely Planet, The Daily Telegraph and Fodor's. She also volunteers with Conservation Through Public Health where she works with Dr Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Uganda's most prominent gorilla vet.
Mariellen Ward
Mariellen is a professional travel journalist who publishes the award-winning travel site Breathedreamgo.com, inspired by her extensive travels in India. Though Canadian by birth, Mariellen considers India to be her "soul culture” and she lives up in the clouds in Rishikesh.
Rachel Bracken-Singh
Rachel is head designer at international fashion boutique Anokhi and co-founder and director of the Anokhi Museum of Hand Printing. She lives in Jaipur.
Lakshmi Sharath
Lakshmi is a writer and travel journalist with 20 years' experience writing on travel within India and beyond, with bylines for the Lonely Planet, the Times of India, The Hindu, and many more.
John Hurd
John is a consultant and international conservation expert, specialising in earth structures and archaeological sites. He was previously head of conservation at the Global Heritage Fund.
Guido Van Es
Guido is a founder of Impactful Travel, a trailblazer in responsible and community-based tourism. He has been promoting inclusive and slow tourism since 2002. He founded Impactful Travel (formerly RESPONSible Travel Peru) in 2010 along with
Hugh Thomson
Hugh has led several research expeditions to Peru and is the author of The White Rock: An Exploration of the Inca Heartland and of Cochineal Red: Travels through Ancient Peru.
Mike Gasparovic
Mike is an independent travel writer based in Lima, Peru. He has written for Fodor’s, Peru This Week and has created two book-length guides to his new hometown. His chief interests are the history and culture of the Spanish speaking world.
Matt Maynard
Matt has been based in Chile since he began a bicycle adventure from Patagonia in 2011. Since then, he has run ultramarathons across steaming volcanoes, hiked solo on the remotest stretches of the Greater Patagonian Trail and ridden his tandem with his Chilean wife across the breathless expanses of the Atacama desert.
Heather Richardson
Heather is an award-winning journalist and editor based in Cape Town, South Africa. She writes for the BBC, Sunday Times, National Geographic, Lonely Planet, Departures Magazine, among others.
Peter Knights
Peter is co-founder and Executive Director of WildAid, the only organisation focused on reducing demand for wildlife products and leading the fight against global demand for shark fin, ivory, and rhino horn.
Andrea Mujica
Born and raised in Florida, Andrea is currently living a nomadic lifestyle in Chile. She loves writing, people-watching, eating avocados, and finding new and interesting places to visit throughout South America.
Carolina Morgado
Carolina currently works as executive director in the Tompkins Conservation Chile office in the beautiful city of Puerto Varas, the gateway to Chilean Patagonia.
Ashley Leiman
Ashley founded the Orangutan Foundation in 1990 and is one of the leading figures in orangutan conservation.
Anthony Ham
Anthony is a renowned travel journalist and guidebook author and is one of the world's leading authorities on Africa safari, wildlife and conservation. He has been travelling to Africa for more than two decades to research Africa safari guidebooks for Lonely Planet. He is widely published in The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, The Monthly, Virginia Quarterly Review (VQR), National Geographic Traveler, BBC Wildlife, Lonely Planet Traveller, Africa Geographic, The Independent, Travel Africa, among many others.
Amanda Lynnes
Amanda is Head of communications and environment at the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO). Her Antarctic career began in 1996 with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) as a penguin biologist and field assistant for the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR).
Cindy Fan
Cindy Fan is a writer specialising in experiential travel, food, culture and destination guides. The author of Travelfish’s Laos and Vietnam guides since 2014, her stories and guides have been published in CNN Travel, The Australian, The Toronto Star and various inflight magazines.
Mandy Sinclair
Mandy Sinclair is a travel journalist and guidebook author based in Marrakech, Morocco. She runs the blog MandyInMorocco.com and hosts the bi-weekly podcast Why Morocco. She contributes to the Lonely Planet, The Independent, Toronto Star, Sunday Times Travel Magazine, Telegraph Travel, among many other publications.
Lauren Keith
Lauren Keith is a guidebook author and travel writer specialising in the Middle East and North Africa and off-the-beaten-track destinations. Lauren was previously the editor for the Middle East and North Africa at Lonely Planet, where she’s written extensively about the region. Follow her adventures in the Middle East and beyond on Instagram @noplacelike_it.
Megan Eaves
Megan Eaves first visited China in 2004 with her Mandarin-language class and got hooked on Nanjing’s spicy weather and food. She’s lived in China twice and visited countless more times, travelling the length of the country from Guangdong to Qinghai and Guizhou to Beijing. She has written on China for Lonely Planet, CNN, The Independent and Atlas by Etihad, and is the author of This Is China: A Guidebook for Teachers, Backpackers and Other Lunatics. If lost, she is likely to be found scarfing down beef noodles in remotest Gansu province, or guzzling craft beer in a Beijing hutong.
David Luekens
Based in Thailand since 2011, David first waded into Southeast Asia in the early 2000s via friendships forged in the Thai, Vietnamese and Karen communities of Vermont, almost Canada, USA. He is a bona fide nerd in maps, islands and travel planning with a research background in Buddhism and the environmental, political and human rights issues of Southeast Asia. Bylines include CNN Travel, Conde Nast Traveller China and more than 100 Travelfish guides.
Edgar R Batte
Edgar is an award-winning journalist, writer and editor. His work has been published by The East African, African Review, Music in Africa, Marimba Media and many more.
Nicole Canning
Nicole Canning is a freelance travel writer and co-founder of the adventure travel blog, TheTwoTravelled.com. Follow her on @nikkitravelled where she shares her latest travel plans and country guides for the time-restricted traveller.
Julie Olum
Julie Olum is a nomad, writer, YouTuber and architecture graduate from Nairobi, Kenya. The hands and mind behind FrameAmbition.com, she makes online content around solo travel, festivals and visa hacks for holders of “weak passports". Her love affair with travel is now a near-obsession with slow travel and exploring cultural similarities across the world.
Björn Persson
Björn is a wildlife/conservation photojournalist from Sweden. For several years he has travelled around east Africa and followed the great migration in search of adventure and images. Several of them have been rewarded in international photography competitions. Have a closer look at his work on www.bjornpersson.nu.
Dr Joseph Ogutu
Joseph is a bio-statistician currently based at the Institute of Crop Science in the University of Hohenheim. His research focuses on understanding the decline in the wildlife population of Kenya.
Susannah Rigg
Susannah Rigg is a freelance writer and Mexico specialist based in Mexico City. Her work has been featured by Condé Nast Traveller, CNN, BBC Travel and AFAR among others. She has visited 26 of Mexico’s 32 states and is captivated by Mexico’s rich Mesoamerican history.
Sharell Cook
"Sharell Cook is a travel writer and author of Henna for the Broken-Hearted, published by Pan Macmillan. She was born and brought up in Australia and now lives in Mumbai, India."
Amanda Barnes
Amanda Barnes is an award-winning wine and travel writer who has been based in Argentina since 2009. She is author of the South America Wine Guide: The essential guide to the wine regions of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia and Peru. When she isn’t drinking wine in South America’s wine regions you can often find her riding horses with gauchos in eastern Argentina, exploring the steppes of Patagonia, or learning to tango in Montevideo.
Mark Stratton
Mark is a professional travel writer and radio broadcaster. His work has appeared in National Geographic, Wanderlust, Telegraph Travel and many others. He is a regular contributor to BBC Radio Four’s From Our Own Correspondent.
Somdyuti Datta Ray
Somdyuti is an experienced Kolkata-based journalist who has written for Outlook Business, The Telegraph India, The Asian Age and others.
James Lowen
James writes about travel and nature. He has twice won Travel Guidebook of the Year awards. His books include Pantanal Wildlife: a Visitor’s Guide to Brazil’s Great Wetland and he is the editor of Neotropical Birding, the only magazine dedicated to wildlife in South and Central America.
Tamara Thiessen
Journalist-travel writer and photographer, Tamara Thiessen is an expert on Borneo with her 4th edition Bradt Travel Guide to the island due in 2020. France-Australia based, she works for newspapers, travel & leisure publications and in-flight magazines worldwide and is the author of several books
Jon Jared
Jon is a travel writer and guidebook researcher based in Quito, Ecuador. He has authored the Moon guides to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands and contributes to Delta Sky Magazine and the Happy Gringo Travel website.
David Whitley
David Whitley spent five years in Australia editing backpacker magazines and has visited twice a year since coming back to the UK. He works for major magazines and newspapers both at home and in Oz.
Stuart Thornton
Stuart is a California-based travel writer and guidebook author. His books include Moon California Road Trip, Moon Coastal California and the forthcoming Moon Northern California Road Trips. For more about Stuart and his books, visit his website.
Ashley Owen
Ashley is a freelance travel writer from the UK who spent two years travelling around Japan, and writes about the country regularly for a variety of print and online publications. You can follow her on Instagram.
Laura Williams
Laura is a freelance writer who has written for Men's Journal, Thrillist, VeryWellFit and many more. She currently runs a small community bar in the El Llano pueblo in Costa Rica.
James Clark
James is a freelance travel journalist who has written for Lonely Planet, BBC, Monocle, TGO Magazine and TNT Magazine. He is returning to Tohoku to complete the entire Michinoku Coastal Trail.
Emma Sparks
Emma Sparks is an itchy-footed freelance travel writer and digital editor based in Cardiff, UK. She has written for Lonely Planet, The Telegraph, Love Exploring, easyJet, Skyscanner and more.
Robin McKelvie
Robin McKelvie is a Scottish based travel writer who has spent the last two decades travelling the globe writing articles for newspapers and magazines across five continents, as well as over 30 guidebooks for the likes of Berlitz and National Geographic. He also talks travel regularly on the BBC.
Jools Stone
Jools Stone is an award-winning travel and arts writer and editor, published by the Telegraph, New European, Daily Express, Rough Guides and more. Based in Brighton, he’s a keen advocate for rail and slow travel.
Katheryn Wise
Katheryn is World Animal Protection's UK campaigns manager for wildlife. Her role focuses on exposing places where wild animals are used for entertainment in tourism.
Tom Allen
Tom is an explorer and travel writer, originally from England, now based in the South Caucasus. He has published five books and three full-length films, and currently works full-time on the Transcaucasian Trail.
Baia Dzagnidze
Baia is a Tbilisi-born travel journalist with bylines for Lonely Planet, National Geographic Traveller, Skyscanner as well as her own website, Red Fedora Diary, providing local insights and tips for Tiblisi, Georgia and beyond. You can follow her travels on Instagram and Facebook.
Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey
Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey is a freelance travel writer and guidebook author. Her work has appeared in The Independent, The Telegraph, France Today, AFAR, CNN Travel, and her three books on Australia are in print with Moon Travel Guides.
Chris Draper
Chris is head of animal welfare and captivity at the Born Free Foundation. He oversees animal welfare across all the Foundation’s projects and leads on promoting its Compassionate Conservation initiative. Chris is also the European Coordinator for the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries (GFAS) and has completed a PhD at the University of Bristol on the implementation of legislation and assessment of animal welfare in zoos.
Nick Stewart
Nick is World Animal Protection’s global head of campaign against dolphin captivity, advocating for the public and travel industry’s rejection of captive dolphin experiences and building support for responsible alternatives and solutions to protect current and future generations of animals.
Jane Foster
Jane Foster is a British freelance travel writer, based in Split on the Dalmatian coast, and specialising in Croatia, Montenegro and Greece. She writes for the Travel section of the Daily Telegraph (UK) and various magazines, including Conde Nast Traveller and Scandinavian Traveler.
Joel Balsam
Joel Balsam is a travel journalist and editor whose work has appeared in TIME, National Geographic Travel, The Guardian, BBC Travel, American Airlines, Travel + Leisure and more. He is the Lonely Planet guidebook author for Armenia, Morocco and France.
Stephanie Foden
Stephanie Foden is a documentary photographer who has shot stories for National Geographic, New York Times and TIME.
Daiva Repeckaite
Daiva is a Lithuanian journalist based in Malta, published in Guardian Cities, Politico Europe, New Internationalist and other international and local media. She is interested in the changing worlds of work and the ways people make sense of dramatic changes around them.
Kellie Heckman
Kellie has a 20-year track record as a non-profit executive, charity startup veteran, and academic research scientist with a focus on international animal advocacy and conservation, companion animal overpopulation, and the protection of wildlife, equine and farmed animals.
Mazuba Kapambwe
Mazuba is a freelance writer from Zambia whose travel writing has appeared on CNN Travel, Unearth Women, Culture Trip and several in-flight magazines. Her travel podcast Mwende Bwino (Go Well) was recently featured on Conde Nast Traveler’s website and listed as one of the top five Zambian podcasts. Mazuba co-wrote the Lusaka Arts and Culture guide produced by the National Arts Council of Zambia.
Elen Turner
Elen is a Nelson, New Zealand-based travel writer who has lived on both the North and South Islands, from Northland to Otago. Her writing on New Zealand has appeared in Lonely Planet, The New Zealand Herald, Ozy, TripSavvy, Culture Trip, The Points Guy and elsewhere.
Tony Dunnell
Tony has been living in Peru since 2009. He has also written on a range of subjects for publications such as Atlas Obscura, Vice, Mental Floss, and many more. You can see more of his writing at tonydunnell.com.
Fergal MacErlean
Dublin-born Fergal fell in love with Scotland as a student, settling there to become a journalist and cycle guidebook writer. In addition to his guides covering Scotland, he has written for the BBC, New Scientist, BBC Countryfile Magazine and many travel publications. Andalusia is a second home.
Catherine Bodry
Catherine is a freelance travel writer and guidebook author hailing from Anchorage, Alaska. Her work has appeared in Lonely Planet, BBC Travel, Fodor's, MSN UK Travel, and many other print and web publications.
Lisa Maloney
Lisa is an Alaska-based writer and journalist. She has authored the Moon guide to Alaska Alaska and served as senior editor at Alaska magazine among bylines in Via, Backpacker, the Wall Street Journal, Alaska magazine, Last Frontier, Northwest Travel & Life, The Writer, Funds for Writers, Natural Home and Garden and Outside Online.
Daniel McCrohan
Daniel is a prolific guidebook writer who divides his time between exploring Asia for Lonely Planet and Britain for Trailblazer. As well as writing close to 50 guidebooks for Lonely Planet, he has worked on more than a dozen Trailblazer walking guides, and has hiked and camped his way across many parts of the UK, China, Mongolia and India.
Sarah Reid
Sarah is an award-winning Australian travel writer with a passion for sustainability and low-impact travel. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, BBC Travel, Lonely Planet, Adventure.com, The Independent, and more. She also writes travel reference books for Lonely Planet, and manages sustainable travel website Eco Travelist.
Colin Baird
Edinburgh-born Colin is a cycling blogger. He became hooked on cycling in Scotland after his first-ever biking holiday to the Orkney Islands. He's been all over the country discovering routes and seeking out the best places to visit by bike. He blogs about his adventures on the Cycling Scot website.
Sara Jane Armstrong
SJ Armstrong is a travel writer and infrequent blogger from London. She specialises in slow and budget travel across 6 continents, including 6 months travelling around Australia. Her writing has appeared in various online outlets and magazines, and more of her published work can be found here.
Jeremy Head
Freelance travel writer and photographer. His writing and photos are regularly published in the UK’s mainstream newspapers. Wales is one of his favourite destinations, particularly when he’s travelling with the family.
Steven Hunt
Steven is an energy & innovation advisor at the UK's Department for International Development (DFiD) with an interest in low carbon, and energy access technology. When he's not at work he's out exploring new corners of the UK and Europe with his wife, Sarah, and their two boys in their 1980s Volkswagen T3 campervan.
Paul Bloomfield
Paul is an award-winning travel journalist writing on walking and hiking in Europe and beyond for the likes of the Telegraph, The Times, Wanderlust, Lonely Planet, BBC Wildlife and National Geographic Traveller.
Simon Heptinstall
Simon is a TV writer turned travel journalist and photographer who specialises in walking and hiking holidays in the United Kingdom, Europe and beyond. He writes on walking holidays in England for the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, among others.
Taylor St. John
Taylor is a freelance travel journalist based between Glasgow and the east coast of the U.S. She writes for publications like HuffPost UK, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Country Walking, easyJet Traveller and Orkney.com.
Kerry Walker
Based in the mountains of Mid Wales, Kerry Walker is an award-winning British travel writer, author, photographer, translator and co-founder of Undiscovered Wales. She is also lover of mountains, cold places and true wilderness.
Belinda Dixon
Belinda Dixon has researched Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland guidebooks for Lonely Planet and produces podcasts for Ordnance Survey (OS). She has led wilderness expeditions to the Indian Himalaya, Iceland and the Canadian Yukon with the youth development charity, British Exploring.
Jody Halsted
Jody Halsted is her family’s chief vacation planner and publisher of Camping Tips for Everyone. While Jody has experience with all types of camping, from ‘roughing it’ to luxury glamping, she prefers the spacious comfort of her 36’ Class A RV.
Amy Balfour
Amy has authored or co-authored 26 books on the USA for Lonely Planet. Her articles and essays have appeared in Backpacker, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Houston Chronicle, Redbook, Southern Living, Women’s Health, Vegetarian Times, the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post.
Lucie Grace
Lucie is a freelance journalist specialising in arts, music, travel and leisure. She has lived in London, Malta and Venice, and currently resides in India. You can follow her travels and work on Instagram.
Ellie Ross
Ellie is a NCTJ-qualified travel journalist specialising in active travel, yoga, and fitness. She is published in The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, National Geographic Traveller, among many more.
Lottie Gross
Lottie is a travel journalist with bylines in The Telegraph, The Times, The Independent, National Geographic Traveller among others.
Sarah Bence
Sarah Bence is a travel journalist based in her home state of Michigan, after living in the UK for three and a half years. She writes for Lonely Planet, Fodor's, Roadtrippers Magazine, Business Insider, and more.
Rudolf Abraham
Rudolf Abraham is an award-winning travel journalist, photographer and guidebook author. He writes on trekking and hiking for National Geographic, the BBC, Cicerone, DK Eyewitness, Bradt Guides, among many others.
Helen Moat
Helen Moat is author of Bradt Guides' Slow Travel The Peak District. She is also a regular contributor for Wanderlust, Derbyshire Life, BBC Countryfile, among others. Now settled in the Peak District, she is constantly inspired by the landscape and the people and places shaped by the Peak.
Hans Cosmas Ngoteya
Hans Cosmas Ngoteya is a conservationist from Tanzania, a National Geographic Explorer, and co-founder of numerous conservation organisations including Ngoteya Wild, Landscape and Conservation Mentors Organization and Tanzania Wildlife Media Association.
Maureen Santucci
Maureen is based in the ancient Peruvian capital of Cusco, where she works as a travel advisor and journalist covering Peru for Fodors Travel Guides and a variety of other publications.
Robert Isenberg
Robert Isenberg spent nearly two years in Costa Rica as an adventurer and journalist for the Tico Times. An award-winning writer and stage actor, Isenberg has contributed to such diverse publications as Lonely Planet, McSweeney's, Mental Floss, The Christian Science Monitor, and Pittsburgh Magazine. He has authored several books, most recently The Green Season, a jaunty collection of journalism and essays from his time in Costa Rica (also on Audible). He currently lives in Phoenix, AZ.
Erin Raub
Erin Raub is a travel writer and journalist who has been based in Costa Rica for nearly a decade. When not writing, Erin enjoys exploring Costa Rica with her family, ever-impressed at the country’s incredible diversity. Her favorite spots are the cloud forests of Monteverde, the beaches of Manuel Antonio, and the volcanic landscapes of Rincón de la Vieja.
Erin Walton
Erin is an Australian writer and translator who has called Chile home for over four years. After travelling through South America from Santa Marta to Ushuaia as an independent traveller, she moved back to Chile where she remains drawn to its always-varying landscapes. She writes for companies working in travel and tourism.
James Gifford
James is an award-winning photographer and journalist based in Botswana. His work on Botswana's wildlife, landscapes and culture has been published in numerous publications including The Times, The Guardian, BBC Wildlife, Lonely Planet, CNN Traveller, amongst many others.
Stuart Butler
Stuart is an award-winning travel journalist covering safari, trekking and conservation in Kenya and Tanzania for the Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, BBC, Bradt Travel Guides, amongst many others. He is the author of Walking With The Maasai, a journey through some of Kenya's lesser-visited Maasai lands.
Sara Mc Geough
Sara is a travel writer, editor and adventure guide based in the West coast of Ireland. She guides for Wilderness Ireland, Trek Travel and writes for Her Sport Magazine.
Heather Jasper
Based in Cusco, Peru, Heather is an expert on travel to Peru and South America. Heather writes on tourism, trekking, and social issues in Peru for publications including BBC Travel, Fodor’s Travel, Matador Network, Thrifty Nomads, World Nomads, Frommer's, Flashpack, and more. Heather co-founded the Covid Relief Project with Henry Quintano Loaiza to assist vulnerable families in the Cusco region.
Emma Boyle
Emma is an established travel writer and author specialising in Sri Lanka where she was based for over a decade. Emma's work has featured in Condé Nast Traveller, Guardian Travel, Get Lost, Suitcase, Wanderlust and numerous inflight magazines. She's written for i-escape.com and Mr & Mrs Smith, and is The Telegraph's Sri Lanka hotel expert. She's worked on many Rough Guides titles including guides to Australia, India and Sri Lanka. She is also the author of Culture Smart! Sri Lanka.
Stephen Lioy
Stephen is a travel photographer and writer who specialises in trekking and hiking in Kyrgyzstan, Morocco and destinations beyond in Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. He writes for Lonely Planet, BBC Travel, Slate, amongst many others.
Peter Elia
Peter is a travel journalist and photographer who travels the globe searching for compelling stories from the paths less travelled. He writes on trekking and hiking for many publications, including BBC Travel, Lonely Planet, The Independent and The Guardian.
Yvonne Gordon
Yvonne Gordon is an award-winning adventure travel writer based in Ireland. She writes for The Sunday Times, the Irish Independent, National Geographic, the BBC Travel, the Washington Post, among many others.
Steph Dyson
Steph Dyson is a freelance travel journalist and guidebook author. She specialises in adventure travel to Chile and South America. She spent three years living in Santiago and writes for Moon Guides, Rough Guides, DK Eyewitness Guides, The Independent, Vox.com, CNN, Time Out, as well as her own South America travel site, Worldly Adventurer.
Bradley Mayhew
Bradley is a travel journalist and guidebook author specialising in trekking in Central Asia, Nepal, Bhutan and elsewhere in Asia. He writes for Lonely Planet, Odyssey Guides, Insight Guides, among others.
Sarah Kingdom
Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, before moving to Africa at the age of 21, Sarah Kingdom is a mountain climber and guide, traveller, yoga teacher, trail runner, and mother of two. When she is not climbing or traveling she lives on a cattle ranch in central Zambia. She guides climbing and trekking trips worldwide, including taking climbers up Mount Kilimanjaro numerous times a year.
Philip Briggs
Philip Briggs is a guidebook writer and travel journalist specialised in African travel. He first backpacked between Nairobi and Cape Town in 1986 and has been travelling the highways and byways of Africa ever since. Since the 1990s, he has researched and authored several pioneering Bradt Guides. These include the first dedicated guidebooks to Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Malawi, Ghana, Mozambique, Rwanda and Somaliland. He has worked on guidebooks for several other publishers including AA, Insight, Berlitz, Eyewitness, Frommers, Rough Guides, Struik-New Holland and 30 Degrees South.
Joshua Zukas
Joshua is a Vietnam-based journalist covering travel, culture, architecture, food and innovation in Asia. He holds a BA in Southeast Asian Studies and an MSc in Sustainable Tourism.
He writes on Vietnam for Lonely Planet, Michelin Guide, Bradt Guides, Ink Global, CNN Create and Asia's top inflight magazines, and contributes to The Economist, Insider, Wallpaper and Interior Design Magazine, among many others.
Sarah Gilbert
Sarah is an award-winning travel journalist and guidebook author specialising in Morocco, Africa and Latin America. She has been published in Lonely Planet, Wanderlust, The Guardian, The Telegraph, among many others.
Melanie van Zyl
Melanie is a travel photojournalist and guidebook author based in Johannesburg. A qualified field guide, scuba diver and budding birdwatcher, she is an expert contributor on Southern Africa and has written for Lonely Planet, Travel+Leisure, Condé Nast Traveller and Fodor's, and photographed some of the continent's beloved travel lodges.
Nike Werstroh
Nike Werstroh is an outdoor writer and co-author of several walking guidebooks including Walking in Catalunya-Barcelona and Walking in Catalunya- Girona Pyrenees published by Cicerone Press. She is passionate about hiking and wants to share her love for the outdoors through her articles and books.
Miguel Gongora
Miguel Angel Gongora Meza is co-founder of Evolution Treks Peru, a pioneering trekking operator based in Cusco. Evolution Treks have established a strong reputation as an employee-owned trekking operator with a keen emphasis on social impact, offering fair conditions and wages for their workers and the first operator to empower women porters on the Inca Trail.
David Blanton
David has been traveling to East Africa for the past forty years. He lived in East Africa for seven years, five years in Kenya and two in Uganda, where he was a Peace Corps volunteer. In 1983, he founded Voyagers International, a tour company specializing in worldwide nature tours. In 1995, he founded the IGTOA and in 2010 he founded Serengeti Watch.
Jan Bakker
Jan is the initiator of the Pamir Trail. He is an explorer and travel journalist who covers adventure travel for various UK and Dutch magazines, as well as the Trekking in Tajikistan guidebook for Cicerone.
Michelle Peters
Michelle Peters is a freelance travel writer in Seattle, where she is fortunate enough to dream big and write about the world around her, all while caring for three young and energetic children. A previous editorial director with Virtuoso, Michelle now crafts print and web copy for hotels, resorts, cruise lines and tour operators.
Shikha Tripathi
Shikha is a journalist and travel writer based in Uttarakhand, specialising in outdoor and adventure writing in the Himalaya region. Her work appears in Lonely Planet, National Geographic, Conde Nast Traveler, Travel+Leisure, among many others.
Joni Herison
Joni is a Bhutan travel expert and author who has been involved in travel to Bhutan since 2008. He is author of the Bhutan Travelog and managing director of Druk Asia, a leading specialist in travel to Bhutan.
Lucy Booth
Lucy is a co-founder of Kenya Treks, a niche tour operator specialising in trekking and hiking trips to some of Kenya's offbeat hidden gems. She is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and has been organising adventurous travel to Kenya since 2009.
Sarah Riches
Sarah is an expedition cruise expert who has written for Condé Nast Traveller, National Geographic Traveller, Adventure.com, the FT and The Independent. She is also the former editor of World of Cruising and Wanderlust Magazine, deputy of Time Out Abu Dhabi and Where London and author of London Almanac (2010) and Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to British Customs & Culture (2024).
Emily Green
Emily is program director at the Torres del Paine Legacy Fund, a non-profit organisation dedicated to improving the visitor experience and long-term health of the park and its local communities.
Jim Lutz
Jim is president of the International Galapagos Tour Operators Association, an organisation made up of 40 companies working to preserve and protect the islands by promoting responsible, well-regulated, low impact tourism, and by supporting critical conservation initiatives and scientific research.
Stuart Butler
Stuart is an award-winning travel journalist and guidebook author who has been visiting and trekking in Nepal for over thirty years. One of the world's leading authorities on Nepal trekking, he is the author of Lonely Planet’s Trekking in Nepal, the Rough Guide to Nepal, the Tibet chapter of the Rough Guide to China and the Bradt guide to Kashmir & Ladakh. He is also regularly published in The Independent, BBC, Time Out, The Telegraph, among many other UK and international publications.
Rosie Bellwood
Rosie is a writer from Sheffield who has spent the last couple of years pottering about Europe, Southeast Asia and New Zealand, writing screenplays and blogging about her favourite films.
Abhi Shrestha
Abhi is the operations manager at Snow Cat Travel, one of Nepal and Bhutan's most highly regarded trekking specialists. With 25 years' experience organising treks to Nepal and Bhutan, they're recognised by Lonely Planet, Rough Guides and multiple other publications as one of the best trekking operators in the region.
Miles Buesst
Miles has been travelling to Peru since 1999, originally as a tour leader and more recently as the founder of PeruNorth, a leading specialist in Peru trekking tours to lesser-known locations. Over the years, his expert knowledge has been employed by various guidebooks, including National Geographic Traveller: Peru, DK Eyewitness, Footprint: South America Handbook and Viva Peru!
Denise Carnihan
Denise is the founder of Helping Hand African Tours & Safaris, a specialist in safari to Kenya. She has been travelling to, and working in, Kenya for over twelve years. Her travel business has allowed Denise to establish two primary schools in Kenya, and she has written a book based on her experiences.
Nune Taunts
Based in Yerevan, Armenia, Nune is the founder of Cascade Travel, a specialist in cultural and active travel to Armenia. has been organising and operating travel to Armenia and the Caucasus for the last 12 years, originally as a tour manager and more recently as CEO of the two biggest travel companies in the Caucasus.
Caitlin McNamara
Caitlin is a senior travel expert for Amity Tours, a specialist in Chile hiking and adventure travel. Based in Santiago, she has been living, working and travelling in Chile since 2015, visiting some of the country's most thrilling locations from the Atacama desert to Torres del Paine and virtually everywhere in between. Of all Chile's best trekking destinations, those closest to her heart are San Pedro de Atacama, Colchagua, Mapu Lahual, Frutillar, Chiloé, and Torres del Paine.
Robert Zgozi
Robert has been organising safaris to Zambia for over 10 years. He is the founder and CEO of Absolute Zambia Safaris, a leading local safari operator.
Robbin Meulemans
Robbin is the founder and CEO of Tanzania Specialists and has been organising safaris to Tanzania since 2015. It took just one unforgettable tour for Robbin and his wife to fall in love with the magic of Tanzania, and Tanzania Specialists was born quickly growing into a 30-person team based in Arusha and the Netherlands.
Rory Sheldon
Rory, born and raised in Botswana, is the founder and director of The African Wild, a social enterprise that specialises in conservation through ecotourism. He has over 12 years' experience in video journalism, conservation management, and ecotourism in Botswana.
Emma Heywood
Emma is founder and director of Undiscovered Balkans, a leading specialist in sustainable small group adventure, active and walking holidays in the Balkans established in 2008. Tours are based on her unique local knowledge and have won acclaim from top travel media including The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Times, the Lonely Planet and Bradt guides and others.
Jamal Idali
Jamal is the founder of Atlas Mountain Trekking, and has been leading treks and tours in Morocco since 2002. In 2012 he decided to create his own business showing visitors the very best of Morocco's trekking and hiking.
David Battle
David is the director of Thistle Trekking, established in 2011 and a leading specialist in fully guided adventure treks and walking holidays in Scotland. David is a qualified Mountain Leader and is either busy hiking in the Highlands, planning his next trip, or helping organise a trekking holiday for one of Thistle Trekking's clients.
Dil Gurung
Dil is the founder of Alpine Ramble Treks, one of Kathmandu's leading trekking operators recommended by Lonely Planet, TripAdvisor's Travellers' Choice awards and more. He has been organising treks to Nepal since 2011, starting out as a guide before working up the ranks in Nepal trekking operators and eventually establishing his own business. He is accredited by the Nepal Academy of Tourism and Hotel Management (NATHM), Kathmandu Environment Education Project (KEEP), along with certifications from the Nepal Tourism Board.
Emily Burrows
Emily is the co-founder of Wild Morocco, a specialist in adventure travel to Morocco and trekking in the Sahara, featured by Lonely Planet and The Telegraph.
Musaddiq Gulamhussein
Musaddiq has been the general manager of Easy Travel, one of Tanzania's leading specialist tour operators, since 2007.
Marc Harris
Marc is the director of Tanzania Odyssey, one of the UK's leading specialists in travel to Tanzania. Marc started organising safaris for clients in the mid 1990s. His knowledge is decades in the making: he is a judge of The Good Safari Guide and a director of the African Travel and Tourism Association (ATTA), he is one of the most respected safari consultants in the world.
Alovaddin Kalonov
Alovaddin is founder of Paramount Journey, the leading specialist in expedition treks in Tajikistan. He has hiked every corner of his native Tajikistan, leading expeditions to the Fann and Pamir Mountains, Yagnob, Rasht, and Shirkent valleys. He is an award-winning photographer whose work has been exhibited internationally.
Mohamed El Guellouti
Mohamed is a qualified mountain and desert guide born and raised in Imlil, in the heart of the Atlas Mountains. In 2003 he founded Tizi Trekking, a specialist in Morocco hiking and adventure travel. He organises and leads trips to Morocco's fascinating and offbeat corners, including the Atlantic Coast, the Anti-Atlas, as well as Morocco's classic trekking locations around Toubkal and the Sahara.
Raj Kumar Khadka
Raj is the founder of Green Society Adventure, a specialist in Nepal treks and mountaineering expeditions. Raj has over 16 years' experience in the Nepal trekking industry, organising itineraries to some of the country's most fascinating corners and lesser-visited hidden gems.
Gaye Thavisin
Gaye is the founder of Wow Borneo, one of the leading specialists in small-ship wildlife cruises in Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). Gaye has been working in Borneo for the last 20 years, establishing Wow Borneo in 2007 to help conserve Borneo's threatened ecosystem by supporting small-scale and low-impact tourism.
Karma Rigsang Nima
Karma Risgang is head of operations and travel consultant for the Trans Bhutan Trail (TBT), the official non-profit organisation tasked with developing and maintaining the 403 kilometre trekking trail that crosses Bhutan from from west to east. The pioneering TBT has been recognised by the international media, including The Times, CNN, Lonely Planet, Wanderlust, among many others.
Pema Nidup
Pema is operations manager and tour guide for Rural Heritage Bhutan, one of the leading Bhutan trekking and adventure travel specialists. Hailing from the rural area of Pema Gatshel in the eastern part of Bhutan, he has been organising treks and adventure travel in Bhutan since 2014.
Asel Ismailova
Asel Ismailova is travel planner at Kyrgyz Guided Tours, a specialist in Kyrgyzstan trekking and adventure travel. Asel has over 18 years experience organising tours to Kyrgyzstan. She especially enjoys trekking, cycling and horse riding in the Kyrgyz countryside.
Elmira Kalmakova
Elmira is founder of Ecotour Kyrgyzstan, which was founded in 1998 and is one of the best established trekking and adventure travel specialists in Kyrgyzstan.
Sarah Baxter
Sarah Baxter is a Bath-based travel journalist and an expert on walking and hiking holidays. She writes for Wanderlust, The Independent, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Lonely Planet, Metro, Stuff, Runner’s World and BBC Countryfile, among others, and is author of A History of the World in 500 Walks.
Rachel Schneider
Rachel is a travel writer and artist with a passion for hiking in the mountains. She has spent many months trekking in the mountains of South America, from the Peruvian Andes to the wilds of Patagonia.
Remi Dubois
Remi is founder of Provençal Adventures. He organises immersive, slow travel experiences to the mountains of Provence.
Valérie Frossard
Swiss-born Valérie has been visiting and volunteering in Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands since 2012 and has personally visited the Galapagos Islands eight times. She is now a senior travel advisor at Ecuadorean travel company, Midland Travel, where she helps visitors plan trips to this fascinating country.
John Dante
John is the founder and director of Beyond The Plains Kenya Safaris, a leading locally owned & operated specialist in Kenya safaris.
Khuzeima Zavery
Khuzeima is the CEO and co-founder of Napenda Adventures, a family-owned and operated Tanzania safari operator and specialist in wildlife tourism to Tanzania and East Africa.
Adri de Koning
Adri first visited Kyrgyzstan in 2000 and has been back more than 20 times since then. She works with Ecotour Kyrgyzstan, a leading operator of Kyrgyzstan treks and adventure travel, where she helps communicate with guests, create trip itineraries and help promote Kyrgyzstan to the international audience.
Roxner Quispe
Roxner is the founder of Action Peru Treks, the first indigenous-owned Peru trekking agency. Roxner was born in a small community near Machu Picchu and has been visiting the ruins since he was 12 years old. He has guided hundreds of groups on all the major Machu Picchu treks as well as countless lesser-known hidden gems.
Frazier Msuya
Frazier is executive director of Pinnacle Adventures, a Tanzania-based trekking and adventure travel specialist. Based at the foot of Mt Kilimanjaro, Frazier has been organising travel to Tanzania since 2014.
Dan Oberlatz
Dan has been exploring Alaska’s vast wilderness since 1992. For over 30 years he has systematically explored remote and poorly understood regions of the Alaskan wilderness, on foot, skis, and by raft especially in the environs of Lake Clark National Park, where he lived year-round until 2005.
Rebecca Field
Rebecca is based in the Cairngorms National Park where she has been hosting and organising guided and self-guided hiking tours across the national park for 20 years.
Jeremy Clubb
Jeremy is the Founder and Director of Rainforest Cruises and Antarctica Cruises, two boutique travel agencies specializing in luxury expedition cruising in the world's most remote and adventurous destinations across Latin America, Asia, and the polar realms. Jeremy’s advocacy for responsible cruising and renown as an expedition cruise specialist has garnered recognition in such prestigious publications as Fodors, Forbes, The New York Times, and Travel & Leisure.
Andre Van Kets
Andre is cofounder of Discover Africa Safaris, one of Africa's leading independent travel specialists. He's travelled extensively around South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Mozambique from his home base of Cape Town. He's also explored Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Other passions include his family, running, surfing, snowboarding and swimming.
Claire Dean
Claire has lived in Peru for over 20 years, originally as a tour leader and now assisting the operations and logistics for Valencia Travel Cusco, a leading Peru trekking and travel operator.
Edwina Lonsdale
Edwina has been involved with European river cruising since 1982. As founder of small ship cruise specialist Mundy Cruising, Edwina is one of the world's preeminent authorities on small ship cruises.
Ipsita Paul
Ipsita is a travel journalist based in India with a focus on solo female and adventure travel in India. She has written for various publications in India including The Better India, Go Mad Nomad, Travellers of India, among others.
Luc Romersa
Luc is an outdoor enthusiast, adventure guide and communications expert who has been working in adventure tourism in Chile since 2018. He is a PMBIA mountain bike instructor and an ACGM splitboard guide. He is based in Pucon, the adventure capital of Chile.
Daniiar Alymbekov
Daniiar is co-founder of Kyrgyz Life, a pioneering adventure and trekking operator in Kyrgyzstan. Daniiar has dedicated his life to developing the hiking trails and trekking industry around the Terskey Alatau mountains. He has led the creation of a network of yurt camps on the Ak Suu Transverse and remains an active guide, leading groups through the mountains of Kyrgyzstan.
Pierre Enderlin
A Frenchman in his sixties, Pierre worked for many years in the field of communications (print and web) before moving to Vietnam some ten years ago. He is curious about and passionate about the cultures and traditions of the countries he visits, with a particular interest in folklore and traditions. Sensitive to environmental issues and sustainable development, he is involved in local initiatives. A good communicator, able to forge links easily with the people he meets, he is now putting his experience and know-how to work for Mr Linh's Adventures.
Sarah Confer
Sarah has been visiting Peru since 2006. She has travelled extensively throughout the country as well as the rest of South America, and is especially familiar with Cusco, Machu Picchu, and the surrounding highland communities. An avid hiker, she has spent many a weekend hiking in Peru's mountains, spending the cold nights huddled under layers of handwoven blankets. She’s also trekked in Europe and Patagonia.
She now splits her time between Canada and Cusco, and spends her days dreaming up adventurous Peruvian itineraries, and helping people create memories they’ll cherish for a lifetime.
Sam Gough
Sam is the founder of responsible tourism operator, Travel Differently. He founded the company in 2021 after over 15 years in the tourism industry. His mission is to create a travel company that helps benefit the local communities and environment, ensuring amazing holidays don't come at the expense of local people. His expertise lies in South America where he has discovered there is much more than the popular highlights.
Vihann Van Wyk
Vihann is a safari expert at Discover Africa. With over a decade of experience in the safari industry, Vihann has journeyed from being a field guide to managing lodges before finding his passion helping travellers plan their own safaris. He has travelled across South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Kenya, and Tanzania.
Susan Veldman
Susan is a seasoned safari travel planner at Discover Africa. She’s passionate about personalised, luxury travel in Africa and has travelled across Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Mauritius, Botswana, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Namibia, and more.
Adelle Bell
Adelle is a safari travel planner at Discover Africa with 15 years of experience in the leisure, travel, and tourism industry. She specialises in crafting bespoke itineraries for luxury travel across East and southern Africa.
Cayleigh Brown
Cayleigh is a safari travel planner at Discover Africa with 10 years of experience in the tourism industry. She has travelled across South Africa, Botswana, and Zimbabwe.
Devryn Panaino
Devryn is a passionate safari travel planner with over 10 years of safari and travel experience. He’s travelled across South Africa, Eswatini, Botswana, and Zambia.
Megan Warrington
Megan is a safari travel planner at Discover Africa with two decades of experience in the travel industry. She has travelled across South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Eswatini, Lesotho, Botswana, and Tanzania.
Chrizaan Troch
Chrizaan is a safari travel planner at Discover Africa with over 20 years of experience in the tourism industry. She has travelled across South Africa, the Seychelles, and Mozambique.
Kelvin Ngugi
Kelvin is the owner and CEO of Olengugih Safaris, a Kenya-based safari specialist which was established in 2019,
Bachan Rana
With 20+ Years of Experience Bachan Rana was born in a remote village called Osla in the Uttarkashi District of Uttarakhand. Having accumulated about 13 years of experience as an adept trek leader and water sports expert in various organizations like GIO and Himalayan River Runner, Bachan decided to establish his own company. Driven by a vision to offer a completely novel experience to trek enthusiasts in the Himalayas, Himalaya Shelter was founded in 2013. Bachan Rana is a self-made individual with immense enthusiasm and willpower, guided by a belief in working with honesty. He follows a philosophy derived from the Bhagavad Gita that encapsulates 'Work is Worship.' This verse profoundly influences both his life and work.
Nguyen Linh
Nguyen Linh, better known as Mr Linh, is the founder of Mr Linh's Adventures which has become Vietnam's preeminent specialist in trekking, hiking and other guides adventures. Mr Linh has been working in Vietnam's adventure travel industry since 2006, originally as a guide and tour manager, and now founder of one of the best and most respected adventure specialist in the entire country.
Philemon Joel
Philemon is founder of Aardvark Expeditions, a Tanzania-based operator of trekking and adventure safaris established in 2008.
Madhav Prasad
Madhav Prasad is a seasoned trekking and tourism expert with over two decades of experience in the field. Starting his career in 2001 as a porter, Madhav quickly advanced to the role of trekking guide, gaining invaluable hands-on experience in Nepal’s diverse trekking routes. In 2009, after eight years of dedication to the industry, he co-founded Mosaic Adventure, a leading trekking and tour company known for its commitment to safety, sustainability and personalized service.
Phil James
Phil is owner of Hike Pyrenees, the leading specialist in walking holidays in the Pyrenees. He is a qualified International Mountain Leader and a member of the British Association of International Mountain Leaders. He has a passion for both the wildlife of the area as well as Spanish history and culture. He loves showing guests the medieval churches and pointing out the myriad of orchids that we have in the Pyrenees.
Hamid Idbelaid
Hamid Idbelaid is the founder of Imlil Trekking, a specialist in trekking and hiking in Morocco's Atlas Mountains. He is a professional mountain guide with 20 years' experience leading trips to Toubkal and beyond in the High Atlas.
Paul Callcutt
Paul Callcutt is the founder of Fitzroy Travel. His background as a guide across Africa and South America underpins the way he designs trips today. He began working in conservation in Zambia, including time monitoring wildlife populations in Kafue National Park, before leading expeditions across Patagonia, Bolivia and the Andes, where he was involved in restoring a remote mountain lodge and training local staff. Paul now splits his time between the UK and the field, personally guiding selected trips and scouting new regions for Fitzroy.
Ruth Franklin
Ruth is co-founder of Secret Paradise Maldives. She has been working in local tourism to the Maldives for over 20 years.
Edita
Edita is the founder of Inkaland Treks and is a certified trekking guide with more than a decade leading expeditions in the Cordillera Blanca and Huayhuash.
Howard Mattingley-White
Howard is co-owner of the historic Plas Tan- Yr-Allt country house in North Wales.